Hmm. How's that working out? That's pretty much the bare minimum to get 7 running at all, and certainly won't do well for ultimate. Please share your Windows experience score, just because I'm curious. (Start > Right click Computer > Properties).

This seems much more likely to be a Windows hogging all the resources issue than a game bug.

"Plants need to have water poured on them because they have no hands to hold glasses of water."

I agree with BowserJr, this appears to be a problem with your OS taking up too much power. You can try disabling Aero. It will make all of your windows look pretty ugly but at least it will increase speed. You can also try changing your desktop to a single color, but I'm not sure if that actually does any significant speed-up.

Everything runs faster than my XP installation. I loaded the current git on there and could not reproduce it. I also have a Windows Vista machine that I could try it on.... I'll load git on that and try to reproduce.

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I love the brilliant randomness of 7.9. Why would Microsoft intentionally design an arbitrary scale that stops on 7.9? Why not just scale everything so it's out of 10?

5.9 is pretty much the limit because it uses the lowest score in a variety of categories, and the only way to get above 5.9 on Primary Hard Disk is to have a Solid state drive. Likewise, all the Windows 7 computers I have can't get above 3, because they don't have dedicated graphics cards (my "main" computer with a good graphics card is still on XP). They all still run Windows well enough, including full Aero. I should probably test SMC on my "2.4" laptop. To be clear, are we talking latest stable or GIT?

"Plants need to have water poured on them because they have no hands to hold glasses of water."

It's possible that XP used software rendering, leaving the graphics card nice and open for SMC, and that Vista/7 are using hardware acceleration, leaving not enough room for SMC to render efficiently. Have you tried disabling Aero, yet?

Uh...what version number do the libraries have? I don't think we have any binaries for the CEGUI 0.7.x series, which is what Git SMC requires. This would mean that you simply have the wrong libraries. AFAIK you need to build CEGUI 0.7.x on your own.

It might be helpful if I started making CEGUI 0.7.x binaries for the major platforms...